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Publication details [#61327]

Gawne, Lauren. 2016. Questions and answers in Lamjung Yolmo. Journal of Pragmatics 101 : 31–53.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Language as a subject
Place, Publisher
Elsevier

Annotation

Lamjung Yolmo (Tibeto-Burman) questions have interrogative structures that predict the evidential form of answers (tracing interlocutor stance in interaction), described as the ‘anticipation rule’. Anticipation is predicated on a form of ‘type-conformity’ expectation, and speakers attend to their interlocutor's knowledge state. Self-answered questions behave otherwise than interlocutor-directed questions.